(1) "Action" means a proceeding instituted against a
governmental agency in a circuit court or in the supreme court of
appeals, except actions instituted pursuant to statutory provisions
that authorize a specific procedure for appeal or similar method of
obtaining relief from the ruling of an administrative agency and
actions instituted to appeal or otherwise seek relief from a
criminal conviction, including, but not limited to, actions to
obtain habeas corpus relief.

(2) "Government agency" means a constitutional officer or
other public official named as a defendant or respondent in his or
her official capacity, or a department, division, bureau, board,
commission or other agency or instrumentality within the executive
branch of state government that has the capacity to sue or be sued;

(3) "Judgment" means a judgment, order or decree of a court
which would:

(A) Require or otherwise mandate an expansion of, increase in,
or addition to the services, duties or responsibilities of a
government agency;

(B) Require or otherwise mandate an increase in the
expenditures of a government agency above the level of expenditures
approved or authorized before the entry of the proposed judgment;

(C) Require or otherwise mandate the employment or other
hiring of, or the contracting with, personnel or other entities by
a government agency in addition to the personnel or other entities
employed or otherwise hired by, or contracted with or by the
government agency;

(D) Require or otherwise mandate payment of a claim based upon
a breach of contract by a government agency; or